2011 Valli Pinot Noir Gibbston Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  12/24/2021 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  The (Temporary) Return of the Golden Weather: Autumn 2021 Visit to Central Otago: No formal note taken on the night. Bought from the wine list at a relatively pedestrian meal at the Grille. Showing quite well. Developed but, at age 10 years, now approaching the end of its life. Largely red fruited – raspberries, red cherries and some plums – with preserved berry fruits, dried and fresh herbs and damp forest floor and underbrush. Nice and savoury. Below mid weight with vibrant, not over-prominent, acidity. For drinking over the next few years.

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  11/17/2019 - apple1813 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  2011 Valli Pinot Noir Gibbston Vineyard was layered, with interplay between ripe fruit notes sweet berry, licorice, and raspberries, and earthy tones of tilted soil and even bird poop in subtle herbal background. With an hour in air, aromas of red plums and anise spices developed. The bricking rim of the medium ruby Pinot Noir, and the presence of sediments showed its maturity. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied, with medium acidity and light level of supple tannin. Flavours of ripe red berries, licorice and minerals were present in a long earthy finish.
  The strong earthiness when first opened, and the ripe sweet fruit flavours it developed in glass would not please all wine drinkers. Nonetheless, it was an exceptional Central Otago Pinot Noir on its own right, with great flavours, style and characters.

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  6/30/2017 - Frijole wrote:

  deep dark burgundy red, medium clarity, ruby hue
  Nose: berry, raspberry, cola, dark chocolate, tobacco, silver, thyme, vanilla, oak
  Pal: berry, raspberry, dark chocolate, cola, tobacco, green pepper, silver, thyme, green herbs, vanilla, earth, minerals, oak
  Feel: medium, full, broad shouldered, savory
  Finish: medium
  T8

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  2/1/2016 - LesPaul Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Very distinctive Valli tangy aroma and acid-led attack. The acid dominates a little more than I prefer - makes it hard to suss out the fruit. Some cola, bit of fruity expansion toward the middle. Finish is vague - like it's not sure if it wants to cut off abruptly or be a pillowy Pinot.
  
  One of my favorite New Zealand producers, and this is to style, but maybe quite not all of a piece.

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  12/23/2014 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Central Otago Visit; 12/20/2014-1/1/2015 (Queenstown and surrounds, Central Otago, New Zealand): Just-transparent black plum colour. Nose is milk coffee and dark red plum, new but unobtrusive oak, nice spiciness. Palate is fresh, vibrant, pronounced cola tingle in the mouthfeel and cherry cola in taste, quite tannic....very tingly and cola-ish...distractingly so. Good resonance and reverberance in the head on the finish. Just needs another year or two for the gawky cola-ness to blow off and for the tannin to integrate. Today it is just too long and even another 24 hours didn't significantly mprove the remaining half of the bottle. I want to like this more.

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